Eli Beverley-Schack has lived in Sydney since he was 11 years old. A string of men’s hair salons suited his gregarious, extrovert personality. He and his wife travelled extensively throughout Asia and Europe, collecting memories.
Now retired, Eli enjoys his rooftop apartment in Neutral Bay, looking across to the city he loves, and reading. Always reading. He still travels frequently with his new partner, and enjoys harbour-side walks, attending live music venues, independent theatre, and is a regular presence at cinemas across Sydney. He enjoys festivals, obscure art movies, movies, national theatre productions and everything that the Sydney cultural scene offers.
He walks to local libraries to select books appealing to his latest interests, whether it be history, travel, politics, biographies, reads reviews of movies, journals and much more, and enjoys taking photos of the skies above his beloved city that litter his Facebook feed.
Eli observes. He sees. He goes beyond the superficial, and he shares.
This superlative ensemble always offers exhilarating performances and kicks off their 2026 season with a stellar fanfare. Australia ‘s most dynamic chamber group excited the audience with a line-up that featured guest artist trumpet virtuoso, David Elton. Shostakovich’s works …
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Its the run-up to …
Bach’s surviving motets are few enough that they can be performed in a single program, and show him at the height of his compositional powers.
It’s hard to find a counterpoint to his complex, well structured and expressive motets, not …
It’s a rarity to encounter a film that exists in a state of dissonance, from the peak of beauty to the despair of frustration. Maybe the dissonance is built into the film as an intentional conversion in subtext.
Lionel Worthing …
What an overwhelming success for a staged concept that gathered 88 esteemed musicians of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, helmed by the ebullient conductor, Nicholas Buc and aided by hosts, raconteurs par excellence, Andrew Pogson and professor Dan Golding who are …
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Its easy to be hypnotised by Florence’s Duomo’s facade when in a relatively short stroll away stands a true vision of history – the Basilica di San Lorenzo, once the city’s cathedral before the Duomo was built. Its facade …
The author Tyree Barnette casts a sharp light on the perspective that’s been missing from race discussions in Australia, one that focuses on how privilege snd race shifts across time and borders.
STOLEN MAN ON STOLEN LAND is a love …
If you fancy a detective story, Mary Beard’s is a voice apart with a conversational style of writing, belying her academic pedigree at its heart. This book is serious history written as a detective story.
What the author presents is …